Antiques in Milan: AMART opens its sixth edition at the Museo della Permanente with 63 galleries
AMART 2024 is back, the sixth edition of the antiques exhibition, from 6 to 10 November at the Museo della Permanente in Milan
Gallerie d'Italia Vicenza of Intesa Sanpaolo inaugurates the exhibition with the masterpiece by Francesco Bertos "The Fall of the Rebel Angels"
The exhibition is dedicated to Francesco Bertos, one of the artists celebrated in the Serenissima in the first half of the eighteenth century (from 11 October 2024 to 9 February 2025)
Jeff Koons, the work Balloon Monkey Blu at auction at Christie's. Contemporary art market in search of revival
Jeff Koons' Balloon Monkey (Blue) (executed 2006-2013) will be offered by Christie's as one of the highlights of the Frieze October 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on 9 October 2024
Auguste Rodin Museum in Paris and the "robe" that pays homage to Balzac on display from October 2024
In the fall of 2024, the Rodin Museum in Paris will spotlight a little-known piece from its collections, Auguste Rodin's Dressing Gown Study for Balzac. From 15 October 2024 to 2 March 2025
Art and Sport. The Discobolus, from Myron to Pierre de Coubertin. Exchanged by Mussolini for Hitler, it can be admired at Palazzo Massimo in Rome
The discus thrower is the work that most identifies the symbolism of the Olympics. Its popularity is due to Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who re-founded the Olympic Games in 1896
London, at the Barbican an exhibition in response to the political-cultural panorama 1975-1998 of India's crucial years
From 5 October 2024, the Barbican (London) presents The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975-1998, the first exhibition in the world to explore and chart this period of significant cultural and political change in India
Rovati Foundation in Milan: the exhibition of Gino Severini and his passion for the Etruscan world inaugurated
The exhibition Giano-Culsans: the double and the Etruscan inspiration of Gino Severini inaugurated at the Luigi Rovati Foundation
The Getty in Los Angeles returns the ancient bronze head to Türkiye
The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has begun returning a bronze head of a youth from its antiquities collection at the Getty Villa Museum to Turkey
Costantin Brancusi at the Center Pompidou in Paris. A retrospective with over 200 works
With almost 200 sculptures, photographs, drawings and films by the artist, the major retrospective entitled “Brancusi” at the Center Pompidou is an exceptional event. From 27 March to 1 July at the Center Pompidou in Paris
Futurism of the brothers Thayaht and Ram, inventors of the "Suit": a book edited by Leo S. Olschki
FUTURISM AND 'BON TON' by the brothers Thayaht and Ram, a book by Edizioni Leo S. Olschki that introduces us to the 20s and to the invention of the "Suit", an item of clothing that became famous all over the world
Fabrizio Plessi at the Todi Arts Festival (PG) with a digital fountain that will remain on display until 25 September
From 26 August to 25 September 2022, the Todi (PG) Festival of Arts hosts Fabrizio Plessi, the pioneer of Italian video art
Gallerie d'Italia Milan: the history of the Torlonia Collection on display
From 25 May to 18 September 2022 the exhibition “I Marmi Torlonia. Collecting Masterpieces. at the Gallerie d'Italia in Milan
Antonio Canova: the Lying Magdalene rediscovered, at auction in July at Christie's London
The non-attribution to Antonio Canova continued until 2002 when it was sold at a garden statue sale where it was purchased by the current owner
Pierre Roche: his works donated to the Petit Palais (Paris) on display from March 10 to September 11
The Petit Palais (Paris) houses the work of Pierre Roche, an Art Nouveau artist
Museo Marini: narrates the summer solstice (June 21) through light
Next 21 June, on the occasion of the summer solstice, the longest day of the year and of strong symbolic value, the Marino Marini Museum is dedicating an entire day to light through two unprecedented moments organized within its large and bright spaces
Museums to discover: the Musée Bourdelle (Paris) recounts Beethoven
The Bourdelle museum in Paris offers a virtual tour of the new exhibition "Bourdelle in front of Beethoven", the presentation of which will be extended until December 2021! In 2020, Beethoven (1770-1827) will have seen the light of day only 250 years ago
Musée du Louvre: Italian Renaissance sculpture
Along a journey full of 140 works, this exhibition “Le Corps et l'Âme. De Donatello à Michel-Ange” scheduled in Paris from the Louvre until 18 January 2021 – but subject to limitations due to health emergencies – was organized in…
Manolo Valdés, history reinterpreted with the weapons of irony and illusion
About seventy works (coming from the artist's studio and from important private collections) including paintings and sculptures (in wood, marble, bronze, alabaster, brass, steel, iron, etc.), some of which are large, photograph, at the Palazzo Cipolla Museum in Rome the…
The "Winged Victory", the statue loved by Carducci and D'Annunzio, returns to Brescia
The Winged Victory will be officially returned to Brescia in November 2020. The statue will return to the city after almost two years of restoration work, promoted by the Municipality of Brescia and the Brescia Museums Foundation, with the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of the Provinces of Bergamo …
Jeff Koons. How much is his work worth?
Jeffrey L. Koons (1955) is an American artist recognized for his work in popular culture and his sculptures depicting everyday objects, including balloon animals, stainless steel products with mirrored surfaces. Lives…
Chloë Bass: “Site specific sculptures” in public spaces of Harlem (NY) – VIDEO
The Studio Museum of Harlem presents Chloë Bass: Wayfinding, the first institutional solo exhibition of the conceptual artist in St. Nicholas Park which can be visited until 27 September. This monumental commission features twenty-four site-specific sculptures that indicate the structural vernacular…
Milan: the triumph of Canova and Thorvaldsen at the Gallerie d'Italia
Until next March 15th, the exhibition on the comparison between the works of the two artists aimed at explaining the foundations of modern sculpture is staged at the Milanese museum headquarters of Intesa Sanpaolo, in collaboration with the State Museum…
Tony Smith, the latest sculpture exhibited at the ICA in Miami
Tony Smith with the exhibition "Sculpture Garden" is present at the Institute of Contemporary Art, in Miami (Florida) from 7 November 2019 to 2 February November 2020.
Milan: Canova and modern sculpture at the Gallerie d'Italia
Created in collaboration with the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the major exhibition will last from 25 October to 15 March 2020.
BIAF: Superfine pair of angels by Gian Giacomo and Guglielmo della Porta
BIAF PREVIEW: the well-known Milanese gallery of Alessandro Cesati will be present at the International Antiques Biennial in Florence (21-29 September 2019) and among the exhibited works we point out a precious pair of candle-bearing angels in Carrara marble dating back to 1532-1537.
Antonio Canova. Atelier: his "colossal horse" takes shape
Exactly one year after our interview with Chiara Casarin, director of the civic museums of Bassano del Grappa, the volume “Antonio…
Artist biographies: Henry Moore, sculpture as an anthropomorphic figure
Moore's sculpture is something that manages to make even the most timid emotions vibrate, its roundness seems to want to protect from the harshness of life, its voids are nothing more than the spaces where to take refuge from fears, everything…
Rebetez's animal sculptures preview in Trento
From 15 June to 12 January 2020 at the MUSE in Trento comes Wildlife, the first Italian exhibition for the German sculptor Jürgen Lingl-Rebetez, who portrays in wood, with an original carving technique, animal species often at risk of extinction.
Henry Moore, sculptures that dialogue with nature
Highlights of the exhibition include many of Moore's most celebrated works, such as the Large Reclining Figure 1984, The Arch 1963-69, Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae 1968-69 and Upright Motive No.8 1955-56.
George Washington "rediscovered" at the Gipsoteca Canoviana
After the success at the Frick Collection museum in New York, the Gipsoteca di Possagno (Treviso) is hosting the exhibition on Canova and George Washington. Open until 28 April 2019.
Alberto Giacometti, masterpieces at the LaM Museum (France)
This exhibition-event, with over 150 works organized in collaboration with the Giacometti Foundation, the LaM (Villeneuve d'Ascq - France) intends to explore the work of one of the greatest artists of the XNUMXth century. Written in the collective imagination, the sculptures of Alberto Giacometti, elongated…
Paris, Thomas Houseago at the Musée d'Art moderne
The museum of modern art of the city of Paris presents the first Thomas Houseago retrospective in France, from March 15 to July 14, 2019.
Michelangelo rediscovered: the "Pietà in terracotta" revealed in a book
An early masterpiece by Buonarroti and the genesis of the Vatican Pietà, the work went through a long restoration and a laborious attribution process - The story of this sculpture is told in a book edited by the art historian Claudio Crescentini.
LOVE by Robert Indiana at auction on March 6 at Sotheby's
The letter O of the sculpture is tilted on the verge of tipping over and seems to underline the precariousness of our bonds and the need to constantly maintain a certain balance.
Sculpture, Libero Andreotti on display in Rome
Inside the new "Arte25" headquarters of the Leasys company, a subsidiary of FCA Bank, some works by the Italian artist, one of the leading sculptors of the last century, will be exhibited
Sacred and Profane in the new reliquary altar of Gallarate
It is Claudio Parmiggiani who signs the project and the realization of the Altar and the Ambo for the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta in Gallarate. Severed heads without busts make up a work to reflect on.
Artists' portfolio: Loris Cecchini, the visionary transformation of reality
Focus on the artist market. How much do his works cost and where can you buy them? Quotations at auction and in the gallery. Exhibition activity and presence in the collections.
Milano Scultura, a different way of doing Art Fairs
This is the year of the fourth edition of Milano Scultura, the contemporary art fair dedicated exclusively to sculpture and installations, with the aim of taking stock of the state of the art and contributing to the debate on the redefinition of the expressive and conceptual fields of …
London, here is DASHA the wax sculpture by Urs Fischer
Dasha (2018) is an oversized wax candle representing Dasha Zhukova, a personal friend of the artist. Made entirely of wax, she wears a pink dress and is seated in a chair.
Artists portfolio: Mauro Staccioli, militant sculptor in dialogue with the environment
Focus on the artist market. How much do his works cost and where can you buy them? Quotations at auction and in the gallery. Exhibition activity and presence in the collections.
Bernini: the triumph of the Baroque in Rome
Sculptor, painter, architect and theater director, extroverted and sociable man with a success in private life equal to that in the artistic field.
Herman Vahramian's "nomadic" sculptures and the true story of the gypsies
We speak more and more of ethnic groups and "gypsies", keepers of millenary stories, but what has changed?
London, the "Bust of Peace" by Antonio Canova at auction
Bust of Peace was the first example of an Ideal Head to be donated to a British patron after the defeat of Napoleon.
Artists' portfolio: Nicola Carrino, the artist of the "Visionary Space"
Focus on the artist market. How much do his works cost and where can you buy them? Quotations at auction and in the gallery. Exhibition activity and presence in the collections.
Sculpture is not just Easter eggs
A journey into the meaning of the plastic arts. Today sculpture is transformed again, it participates in social life in spaces where people can also reflect in it, as in the work "Cracked egg" by artist Jeff Koons
Art, Treviso: great exhibition dedicated to Auguste Rodin
All stages of the sculptor's artistic career are represented at the Santa Caterina, which highlights his very strong interest in Michelangelo and Italian Renaissance sculpture. As well as Rodin's ability to transform the…
Art, exhibition on Melotti's drawing in Milan: an anthology with "lines" and sculptures
The exhibition entitled On drawing, curated by Marco Meneguzzo, presents twenty drawings by Fausto Melotti (1901-1986), 18 of which are exhibited together for the first time and can be dated to the early XNUMXs, one of the artist's most fruitful periods from Trentino .
Sculpture in collecting: monumentality or avant-garde thinking?
The sculpture "Grande femme II", was sold at an auction of European avant-garde art at Christie's in Paris for 25 million euros.
Milan opens the first art fair dedicated exclusively to sculpture and installations
From 17 to 19 November 2017, the Ex Locale Cisterne della Fabbrica del Vapore will welcome the exhibitors, divided between galleries, creative workshops, academies and individual artists, the latter collected in the widespread section Proposte Milano Scultura.
Sculptures by Kengiro Azuma in the house of Marino Marini
The exhibition, which falls one year after the death of the Italian-Japanese artist (who died at the age of ninety in Milan on October 15, 2016), brings together a selection of his works, different in type and nature, including some of the most significant ones 'artist.
Photography, images of Amendola dedicated to the sculptor Marini
An exhibition set up in Palazzo del Tau (Pistoia) from 14 July to 10 September offers a selection of images by the artist taken from the corpus that Aurelio Amendola dedicated to Marini, almost always choosing to portray him alongside his works.
Triennale: Somaini, a sculptor for New York 1967-1976
The Milan Triennale is hosting an exhibition that traces an important creative season of Francesco Somaini (1926-2005), already a protagonist of European concretism and informal art, mainly referable to his activity in the United States.
Malpensa welcomes travelers with 5 sculptures by Pugliese
At La Porta di Milano at the Milan Malpensa airport, 5 monumental sculptures, belonging to the series of Extra Moenia and dei Custodi, document the most recent creative season of the Milanese artist. From 15 December 2016 to 30 March 2017
"The Passion of Cleopatra" between visions and masks in Bologna
The exhibition "Cleopatra's passion. Visions and masks" by Arnaldo Pomodoro, which will be held from 24 June to 18 September 2016, will bring the design materials (drawings, masks, ornaments, models…
Sotheby's New York, auction of Buddhist, Hindu and Jan works
Sotheby's is organizing the Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art Auction in New York on March 16, offering Buddhist, Hindu and Jain works and sculptures from the Dr. Claus Virch Collection.